Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Interpretation
As women age and gain experience, they become more resilient and less susceptible to control by societal expectations.
This quote highlights the idea that while younger women may still be molded or influenced by external pressures and challenges, older women possess a strength and independence that makes them resistant to such control. It reflects the journey of growth, self-discovery, and the complexities of womanhood, suggesting that wisdom and age lead to a fierce autonomy that cannot easily be swayed.
In practice
This quote can be used in a women's empowerment workshop to inspire confidence in older women.
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.
. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Emotions are a source of power, and that's what science tells us. But many people I encounter have been led to think of emotions as a source of weakness.
Adults are just outdated children.
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.